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On 13 September 2017, an article claiming that Disney World was permanently closing the Fort Wilderness Campground due to damage sustained from Hurricane Irma was posted to the prank news web site BreakingNews247.com: This article, along with everything else published on BreakingNews247.com, is fabricated. Prank web sites like this one allows users to generate their own fake news stories to share with their friends on Facebook: The creator of this particular story must have felt some remorse after posting it, as the article was later removed and replaced with a message explaining that it had been a bad joke: Despite the article's deletion, however, the rumor continued to circulate as web sites like ViralDisney.net republished near verbatim copies of the story. These web sites are unaffiliated with Walt Disney World, which has indicated in public statements that Fort Wilderness will soon reopen. The Florida theme park did sustain some damage during Hurricane Irma and the Fort Wilderness campground was temporarily closed. A message on the official Disney World web site explained that the campground will likely reopen by the end of September 2017:
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